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Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH, CPPS

Professor and Director of the Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST)
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Jennifer Taylor is both a country girl and a city kid, having a small farmette on rural Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and a townhouse close to the best cheesesteak place in Philadelphia, PA. Jenn is known for her military precision in packing people, dogs and stuff into her F-150 for all-day beach excursions, and is actively seeking therapy for what is becoming an unhealthly love affair with John Deere.

Dr. Taylor is the founding Director of the Center for Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) and the Arthur L. and Joanne B. Frank Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. FIRST is a research, education, and practice enterprise, comprised of data scientists, epidemiologists, organizational scientists, and psychologists. FIRST supports first responders through objective data collection and analysis on safety culture, stress, mental health, and injury. Dr. Taylor is an injury epidemiologist and health services researcher. She received her PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was the Haddon Fellow in Injury Prevention and Control, and an ERC-NIOSH Training Fellow in Occupational Injury. Dr. Taylor is a board-ceritifed Professional in Patient Safety.

The FIRST Center is home to the FIRE Fellowship, an immersive summer program for public health graduate students – the only program of its kind in the country. FIRST developed two organizational change tools: the Fire Service Organizational Culture of Safety survey (FOCUS), and the SAVER Systems level checklist for violence against EMS responders.


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